Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Jakarta is sinking into the sea. This is the race to save it. Jakarta, Indonesia's capital and the second-largest city in the world.

Key sources and videos quoted:
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown bit.ly/3Kmn4oj
Jakarta is Sinking! youtu.be/qOSwBIstZUs
Jakarta is the World's Fastest Sinking City youtu.be/dNE5aptbGyY
Asia's Sinking Cities: Jakarta youtu.be/M3M9KGPMkoo
Jakarta Kota Air (Part 1) youtu.be/UR_jL-x4W3M
Jakarta Unfair (Full Version) youtu.be/wCjbxuXv92U
Why Jakarta is sinking youtu.be/Z9cJQN6lw3w
Indonesia Pollution: Jakarta tries to clean world's filthiest river youtu.be/QpKr2qaxXto
Let It Flood: Ciliwung Delta by Bindi Purnama bit.ly/3PKERqB

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All other research links:
Indonesia's new capital youtu.be/HvQJiVTeDoc
34 million urban area population demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
Demographics, economy of Indonesia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia
Employment shift to services from agriculture bit.ly/3PQMTxZ
World's second-longest coastline bit.ly/2T66SfJ
Jakarta growth from space 1990-2019 go.nasa.gov/3An8994
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company (Batavia) youtu.be/zPIhMJGWiM8
Indonesian Independence 1945 youtu.be/G2ZTwL9-KPY
Fewer than 1 million have access to piped water bit.ly/3ct5mmy
Sinking 3 times faster than a few years earlier bit.ly/3ALgLYs
Talking trash in Jakarta youtu.be/M5N0NMpKp3A
$40 on Great Garuda Sea Wall (Guardian) bit.ly/3TgSocj
Indonesia's giant capital city is sinking (Nat Geo) on.natgeo.com/3pIqF6K
Why Indonesia is moving its capital (Real Life Lore) youtu.be/t9p1bS1ThwY
Nusantara construction begins [video] youtu.be/eordUP_VGCo
Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to Borneo youtu.be/g3SSXBOlDgY
Indonesia picks winning design for its new capital youtu.be/7-B-jTss5WA
Why do countries move their capital cities? https://econ.st/3PP9kns
Softbank’s exit from Indonesia’s new capital project bit.ly/3wweBcE
Jokowi is considering extending his term https://econ.st/3wrQV95
TransJakarta en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransJakarta

Megacity Episodes:
Buenos Aires, Argentina: The World's Southernmost MEGACITY
youtu.be/fOQrkk0E-TA
London, England's MEGACITY: Capital of the British Empire youtu.be/ZM7TBKD3a5U
Jakarta, Indonesia's MEGACITY - World's Second Largest City youtu.be/h8-fwBMo6bc
Los Angeles, California's Megacity:
youtube.com/watch?v=QropkR9iasY
AFRICA'S MEGACITY: Kinshasa, DRC (CONGO)
youtu.be/bgljcixHvAU
TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmo
PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4
SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc
DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0
CAIRO: Middle East youtube.com/watch?v=0tKphKvodLQ
DELHI: India's Capital youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4
SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE
MEXICO CITY: Largest MEGACITY in the Americas youtu.be/8dEKLuZXrUc

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President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY
Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY
Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc
President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44
Trump Destroyed by Comedian Hasan Minhaj at 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner youtube.com/watch?v=DHLRj1LaPiQ
Seth Rogen Testifies Before Congress youtube.com/watch?v=hvdbHSGWAgs
President Obama's Anger Translator: Behind The Scenes youtube.com/watch?v=xThj8BJIjUg

Jakarta, Indonesia's MEGACITY: The World's Second Largest City

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:11 Welcome to Jakarta
2:55 'Urban planning gone horribly wrong'
3:09 History of Jakarta
3:56 Suharto comes to power
4:30 Land subsidence explained
4:56 Sinking 3x faster
5:29 Historic flooding
6:32 Raising their homes
7:15 The problems with channelization
8:34 Floodplain development
9:15 Kampungs resettlement
10:55 The rising sea
11:47 Great Garuda Sea Wall Megaproject
12:48 A New Capital: Nusantara
14:11 Questions surrounding Nusantara
15:19 A City worth saving
16:21 Piped water for all
16:58 Creating more greenspace
17:30 Building an aquatic metropolis
18:07 Floodproof homes
19:12 Tiny homes on stilts
19:44 How Kampung Tongkal was saved

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